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Florida’s “Critical Thinking” bills: Creationism du jour?

Featuring:

Eugenie C. Scott, Ph.D.

Time:

3:00am

Date:

February 9, 2012

Location:

Fine Arts (FAH) 101
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida

Periodically, including 2011, the Florida Assembly and Senate contemplate bills regarding the teaching of evolution. In these proposed bills, teachers are directed to “critically analyze” evolution, or to present the “full range of scientific views of origins”. Like everything else, these bills have a history – and that history shows that bills of this sort are the current manifestations of the old creationism and evolution controversy that has dogged science education for over 100 years.